tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83218996977866519702024-03-13T17:15:49.114-07:00Pics'n'PotsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321899697786651970.post-58191879392882205472013-05-24T06:25:00.001-07:002013-05-24T06:25:49.639-07:00Barnsley Village FestivalLast weekend was the 25th <a href="http://www.barnsleyvillage.co.uk/villagefestival.html">Barnsley Village Festival</a>. Through the magic of Twitter I had connected with <a href="https://twitter.com/perfectpergolas">Adrian Valentine of Perfect Pergolas</a>, one of the organisers of the event and he suggested that it may be of interest to me.<br />
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The Barnsley Festival was founded by one of Britain's finest gardeners, the late Rosemary Verey. The small Cotswold village is home to several examples of her work, from her own splendid garden at <a href="http://www.barnsleyhouse.com/">Barnsley House Hotel</a> to smaller gardens in and around the village. I was unsure as to whether I would go as the weather had been quite unsettled. I didn't think I would get very many appealing pictures if it was cold, wet and windy with grey skies, flowers bouncing around in the wind and visitors looking grim, huddled up against the cold in their winter coats! Checking the forecast the night before however, it seemed that it might be a reasonable day after all, if not especially summery, so I decided I would get away early on the Saturday morning.<br />
Afetr a two hour drive I arrived in the delightful village, parking in the designated field in glorious sunshine. The entrance fee to the event gets you a garden passport giving you access to 11 gardens, including Barnsley House, Barnsley Arboretum, and Barnsley Park, a fine Georgian House whose gardens are only open on Festival Day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this huge pot tucked away in the corner of one of the gardens</td></tr>
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These next few pictures are taken in The Little House garden, designed by Rosemary Verey.<br />
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The garden currently hosts an exhibition of work by two local sculptors, <a href="http://www.stephaniecushing.com/">Stephanie Cushing</a> and <a href="http://www.jwalkerart.com/">Joanne Walker</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winner of the best garden ( Barn Cottage) collects her prize from celebrity chef Phil Vickerey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celebrity guest Fern Britten accepts a bouquet from Barnsley House Head Gardener Richard Gatenby as Phil Vickerey looks on</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entertainment for the children from Robbo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The traffic ladies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Ceramics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More plants for sale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The barbeque at <a href="http://www.thevillagepub.co.uk/">The Village Pub</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cherry blossom and Cotswold stone</td></tr>
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<u>Barnsley House</u></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plant sales at the front of the hotel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morris Dancing on the lawns</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exploring the gardens</td></tr>
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The Herbs for Healing Garden</h3>
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The <a href="http://www.herbsforhealing.net/">Herbs for Healing</a> garden is owned by Davinia Wynne-Jones. Davinia grew up in the famous gardens at Barnsley House, sharing a passion for herbs with her mother Rosemary Verey.</div>
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I had a wonderful time at the festival and must thank Adrain for telling me about it. There was so much more to see including the Festival of Flowers at Barnsley Church of St Mary the Virgin, an organ recital by Chris Cannock, Maypole Dancing by the children of Bibury C of E Primary School and JB Jazz and Blues performing in The Village Pub. If you get the chance to go next year, do. You won't regret it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321899697786651970.post-60234088770402582232013-05-23T07:49:00.002-07:002013-05-23T07:49:24.970-07:00RHS Malvern Spring Show Part 3And finally - the gardens!<br />
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There was a fantastic input from local schools for this year's show. The theme was books.<br />
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This garden built by Stanley Road Primary School, Worcester, was inspired by Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant'. The giant's chair watches over the children's play area and is made from Elm wood.<br />
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This garden was built by Meadows First School Bromsgrove and is called 'The Hundred Acre Meadow' based on A.A.Milnes Winnie-The-Pooh. The garden was based on a design created by a young girl who was just 4 years old at the time.<br />
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Masses of colour and a 'chocolate' water feature in this garden built by Parkside Middle School, Bromsgrove. This garden looked to Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' for inspiration.<br />
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This very clever garden built by Pershore College took it's direction from 'The Wizard of Oz'. You can clearly see the yellow brick road. the Tin Man, Toto the dog, and if you look closely near the centre of the picture you can see a lion hiding amongst the plants! Dorothy is lying in a bed cover by a rainbow quilt and the wicked Witch of the West has been flatted by the bed, only her stripey legs visible. The Emerald City is represented by a water feature made from green bottles and just out of shot is a rotating wire helix playing the part of the tornado.<br />
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<u>The Show Gardens</u></h3>
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Gold Medal garden by WorldSkills International 2013<br />
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Reposer Vos Roues by Villaggio Verde. Another Gold Medal winner<br />
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And finally another Gold Medal garden by <a href="http://www.alchemy-gardens.com/">Alchemy Gardens</a>.<br />
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I think this is probably my favourite garden and it's design was inspired by Cornwall's Trebah garden, a sub-tropical paradise in a Cornish valley which cascades down to a secluded beach on the Helford River. It's centre-piece, a late 19th century cast iron spiral staircase was found in a local reclamation yard by the designer, Paul Taylor, and is believed to have been the original staircase in the old Kidderminster library, which was demolished in the 1990's.<br />
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This romantic, vintage themed display was by <a href="http://www.cgf.net/">Cotswold Garden Flowers</a><br />
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These vintage flowerpots from <a href="http://www.long-toms.co.uk/">Long Toms</a> were attracting some attention<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See the show gardens in Part 3!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321899697786651970.post-52697553294476462552013-05-23T04:36:00.002-07:002013-05-23T04:49:52.373-07:00RHS Malvern Spring Show Part1Well much to my shame it has been several months since my last blog. Grey skies and strong winds are neither the photographers' or gardener's best friend.<br />
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As on my visit to the Autumn Show conditions were gloomy but this time not improved by the addition of a strong, cold wind.</div>
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The Floral Marquee proved to be the best option to start to take some photographs and despite the poor growing conditions there were some magnificent displays. One of the first I encountered as I stepped in out of the wind was this wonderful display of tulips.<br />
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This display from <a href="http://www.every-picture.com/">Don Billington</a> was absolutley fascinating. Some wonderful bromeliads in some show stopping colours.<br />
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A gorgeous display of Violas from <a href="http://www.graemeiddon.com/">Graeme and Pauline Iddon</a>. I was enchanted by their little faces.<br />
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The calming, simplicity of Bonsai from <a href="http://www.derbyshirebonsai.co.uk/">Derbyshire Bonsai</a></div>
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These plants were new to me - Pleione - from Ian Butterfield in Bourne End, Bucks (no website as far as I can tell).<br />
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There were a few people who I follow on Twitter who were exhibiting at the show so I was hoping to meet them face to face. My first port of call was the Good Life Pavillion and as I arrived I bumped into Martin Gee, Head Gardener at <a href="http://www.weston-park.com/">Weston Park</a>. It was lovely to see him but I was acutely aware that I haven't visited the gardens for some months. Hopefully I will be able to get there and capture some of the promised spectacular autumn colour in the next few weeks. Moments after parting company with Martin I then bumped into the lovely Sarah and William Wint. If you use Twitter you will find Sarah there as @nicelittleplace. Well worth a follow! They have a lovely <a href="http://www.brookfarmberrington.com/">B and B</a> tucked away in the Worcestershire countryside.<br />
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The first tweeting exhibitors I found were <a href="http://www.cottageherbery.co.uk/">The Cottage Herbery</a>. They won a Silver-Gilt Medal for their fabulous giant trug.<br />
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Unfortunately, there was nobody on the stand when I arrived so I was not able to say hello. Hopefully another time.</div>
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I loved this display by the 3 Shires Garden Centre at Newent in Gloucestershire.</div>
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The kale just looked fantastic! They grabbed themselves a Bronze Flora Award for their exhibit 'Discovering Brasicas'. You can find them on Twitter as @3ShiresGC.<br />
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Also in the Good Life Pavillion was a cookery demonstration by the rather dashing chef Jean-Christophe Novelli.<br />
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From the Good Life Pavillion I then set off in search of fellow Plant Photographer and Tweeter Ian Thwaites but before I got to him I found this garden which drew a lot of attention. This is a permanent feature at the showground and was built by <a href="http://www.alchemy-gardens.com/">Alchemy Gardens</a>.</div>
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And then on to resume my search for <a href="http://www.ianthwaites.com/">Ian</a>. I soon found him as his stand was right at the entrance to the craft market.</div>
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Ian had a lovely display of prints, canvases and greeting cards but the thing that I really loved were the coasters he had made, particularly the ones of cactii and succulents which worked really well. I now have one on my desk!</div>
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A final quick dash around the halls to see the splendid displays of flowers and veg.</div>
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Some amazing vegetables on show. Don't think I'll be getting anything like this anytime soon off my allotment!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321899697786651970.post-10399417508814453202012-08-26T10:26:00.001-07:002012-08-27T08:46:03.490-07:00Party on the PlotWe had hoped to hold a party on the allotments on the final day of National Allotment Week. Unfortunately this was also when a lot of plot holders were away on holiday so it was decided to postpone the event until 25th August. The day started full of promise with clear blue skies and warm sunshine. We had seen the weather forecast which predicted heavy rain and thunder but were beginning to think that we were going to be lucky and miss the storms.<br />
The party was due to start at 3pm and when we arrived at ten past there were quite a few already there and the barbecues were lit and ready to go. Within minutes there was a loud rumble of thunder and the heavens opened!<br />
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The weather didn't stop this youngster from having fun though!<br />
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Only problem was that although we were able to stay lovely and dry under the giant gazebo that had been lent to us it did trap the smoke from the BBQ!</div>
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I guess this just sums up the British Summer and our 'carry on regardless' attitude we have towards it.</div>
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Eventually the rain passed and we were able to get on and enjoy the lovely food that everyone had brought along,</div>
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Well after all the excitement and razzamataz of the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show I thought I would post about something closer to home. I have taken on half an allotment plot in our village this year. My first attempt at veg growing. The site was just an open field which was cut for silage until the newly formed Allotment Society took it on in November last year. The weather put paid to any real progress until February when people started to mark out, plan and dig their plots. Then at the end of March the much needed rabbit-proof fence went up. A fantastic effort by the allotment holders saw over a quarter of a mile of fencing erected over a weekend. I can't believe how fantastic the weather was too!</div>
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Over the subsequent weeks there has been much planting (and replanting as plants succcumbed to the weeks of cold and wet!) and an ongoing battle to keep on top of the dandelions. Though they did bring a splash of colour to the site. Also the essential sheds or similar structures started to appear.<br />
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Slowly but surely the allotments began to turn green as potatoes, peas and beans all started to pop their heads above ground.<br />
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By the end of June all was looking well; a bit behind because of the cool and wet weather but we were all very pleased with our efforts thus far. </div>
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And then disaster struck.............. Blight.</div>
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Overnight some potatoes were brought to their knees. Word went out and there was a flurry of activity as we all rushed to see if ours were infected. It was not looking good. Tops were chopped off in an attempt to stop the disease getting into the potato tubers.</div>
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So sadly the Wilja I grew have not bulked up to the size I would have hoped for but the Charlotte are just fine as a salad potato and the flavour is amazing. I still have some main crop potatoes growing and hopefully they will produce a good crop. These are Sarpo Mira and are blight resistant.</div>
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Since then we have started to enjoy the fruits of our labours. We have had broad beans, peas, courgettes, garlic (just about), carrots, a few strawberries and of course potatoes. The flowers I grew for cutting are also coming along now and I have had a couple of small vases filled at home. </div>
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I can't believe just how addictive the allotment has become. I am very lucky as I am within walking distance and now as I take my dogs for their daily walks they too love to pay a visit and lay on the grass whilst I just have 5 minutes of blissful pottering.</div>
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I hadn't intended to go to Hampton Court Flower Show this year but it was certainly on my list of 'must do one day'. However, via the magic of Twitter (you will find me there as @islaveevee btw) I was invited to go along as a guest of Anglian Home Improvements (<a href="http://www.anglianhome.co.uk/hampton-court-flower-show/">http://www.anglianhome.co.uk/hampton-court-flower-show/</a>) and so on Thursday set off bright and early, armed with my cameras. The journey, sadly, did not go as planned with the last 7 miles taking 2 hours! Nontheless on arrival I hot-footed my way to the Hampton Court Grapevine Theatre, which was sponsored By Anglian Home Improvements. The theatre was hosted by gardening expert and TV presenter David Domoney (<a href="http://www.daviddomoney.com/" target="_blank">http://www.daviddomoney.com/</a>), star of Garden ER, resident gardener on Daybreak and co-presenter of the ITV series, <a href="http://www.itv.com/alantitchmarsh/loveyourgarden/newgardenertips/" target="_blank">Love Your Garden</a> with Alan Titchmarsh. When I arrived David was out and about, interviewing visitors to the show and the results were being beamed back live to the audience in the theatre.</div>
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Throughout the day there were also tips from various gardening experts.</div>
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The highlight for me was the appearance of Toby Buckland, gardening celeb and nursery owner. He was talking about growing your own tomatoes and taking questions from the audience - including one from me!<br />
Seems the problems I have had with my tomatoes in the past are as a result of erratic feeding. Whoops!<br />
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Having been inspired with practical advice it was now time to feast the eyes on the show gardens!<br />
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So a first time visitor now can't wait to visit next year! <br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321899697786651970.post-44670563869344618962012-07-06T07:44:00.004-07:002012-07-06T07:44:51.445-07:00My First BlogI have decided to have a go at blogging. Quite a few things are happening on the photography and allotment fronts that I thought would be better shared here rather than on the 'news' page of my website. This page is just experimentasl in helping me get set up properly. Bloggng in earnest will begin soon - so watch this space!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16357381431466292683noreply@blogger.com0